A keen immigrant Indian marwari lad applied for a salesman's job at London's premier downtown department store.
In fact, it was the biggest store in the world - you could get anything there. The boss asked him,
"Have you ever been a salesman before?"
"Yes sir, I was a salesman in Rajasthan in India", replied the lad.
The boss liked the cut of him and said,
"You can start tomorrow and I'll come and see you."
The day was long and arduous for the young man, but he got through it. And finally 6:00 PM came around. The boss duly fronted up and asked, "How many sales did you make today?"
"Sir, Just ONE sale." said the young salesman.
"Only one sale?"
blurted the boss. "No! No! You see here, most of my staff make 20 or 30 sales a day. If you want to keep this job, you'd better be doing better than just one sale. By the way How much was the sale worth?
"Three hundred thousand, three hundred and thirty four pounds" said the young marwari.
"What"," How did you manage that?" asked the flabbergasted boss.
"Well", said the salesman, "This man came in and I sold him a small fish hook, then a medium hook and finally a really large hook. Then I sell him new fishing rod and some fishing gear. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down the coast. So I told him he'd be needing a boat, so I took him down to the boat department and sold him that twenty-foot schooner with the twin engines.
Then he said his Volkswagen probably wouldn't be able to pull it, so I took him to our automotive department and sold him that new Deluxe 4X4 Blazer.I then asked him where he'll be staying, and since he had no accommodation,I took him to camping department and sold him one of those new igloo 6 sleeper camper tents. Then the guy said, while we're at it, I should throw in about $100 worth of groceries and two cases of beer.
The boss took two steps back and asked in astonishment,
"You sold all that to a guy who came in for a fish hook!!"
"No" answered the salesman, "he came in to buy a box of Sanitary napkins for his wife and I said to him, "Sir, Your weekends screwed anyway, you might as well go fishing."
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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3 comments:
Quite an insight into how sales actually happens...nice story....
cant help but appreciate ur designation....managing worker...that shud make all of your people actually feel like part of the family you have built..
congratulations, sir...!!!!!
Really liked it. Customer loyalty really takes your business far. Business is people is'nt it.
Mr Raj , I tell my son your story often .
Great and inspiring ,sir.
Dear Sir,
Its been long time having heard about you.after reading your blogs it make me to meet up with you somtime. Have been around you many times but never had a chance to come to you & meet.
Eagerly waiting for that day sir.
Really appreciate your hard work.had just gone through your profile on your company website.
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